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Employees - Champion Mill at Freda |
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Champion Mill at Freda: Clem Addams, Shop Foreman; Nat West, Postmaster, Clerk and Warehouseman; Mark Cunningham, Supt. [The guys pose on the steps for a photo.] Scanned: March 4, 2010 |
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Painesdale High School and Paine Memorial Library |
Buildings, Education, Seasons, Winter |
Painesdale High School and Paine Memorial Library with the old Painesdale grade school and the home of the superintendent. Photo taken from the air by plane with Geno Luchessi at the controls. [Aerial view in winter of the the school and surrounding buildings.] Scanned: April 30, 2009 |
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Atlantic Mill Wash Crew |
Manpower, Labor, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, |
The "wash" crew at the Atlantic Mill in 1896 Redridge. These men and boys worked in the "wash" of the old Atlantic Mill. A few men can be identified. Left, with black mustache is Steve Polkinghorn, man with white shirt and tie is Supt. J. C. Coggin, others have last names as Pikkarainen, Pekkala, Gabe, Kopp, Jangas, Lukkarila. Boys, even at age 12, were hired in those days to do 10 hour shifts of hard labor. [Photo of some of the workers.] Scanned: May 1, 2009 |
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Atlantic Mill Carpenter Shop |
Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, |
The Atlantic Mill Carpenter shop and warehouse in Redridge. Building burned down in 1912. The six-head Atlantic Mill is to the right of this photo. [Exterior view of the shop.] Scanned: May 1, 2009 |
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Baltic Mining Company Store |
Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Persons, |
The Baltic Mining Company Store in Redridge was opened in 1911 after a great forest fire destroyed the Atlantic Mining Company's store on a hillside north of this structure. A forest fire hit the old store in early October of 1910 and the blaze cast a huge sheet of fire over the town of Redridge, Mich. People in photo: Esther Salo, Ben Tamblyn (butcher), Harry Polkinghorne, Johnny Dixon, Jim Bartlett (mangr). On wagon: Josephine Gabe, Frank Morin and Roy Kenel. Horse called "Ned". [Exterior view of the store with the employees posing outside for a photo.] Scanned: April 30, 2009 |
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Buildings - Boarding Houses |
Buildings, Dwellings, Seasons, Winter, |
Redridge Boarding House built by the Baltic Mining Co. 1903-04. It closed in June 1922. [Exterior view of the large building with two chimneys and a front porch separated by a door. ] Scanned: April 30, 2009 |
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Redridge Steel Dam |
Earthwork, Dams, Water, |
The spillway disintegrating. The spillway leading from Redridge Steel Dam is shown here as the flood waters are ripping it apart as they rush down into the canyon and on into Lake Superior. The flood occurred on Easter Sunday, 1941. [Water is seen rushing over broken timbers] Scanned: April 17, 2006 |
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Dams - Redridge |
Disasters, Earthwork, Dams, Water |
The gates to the Redridge Steel Dam as they appeared in the Great Flood of Easter Sunday, 1940. [Image of water rushing through the gates.] Scanned: May 1, 2009 |
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Dams - Redridge |
Disasters, Earthwork, Dams, Water |
The spillway at full capacity. On Easter Sunday of 1941 the Redridge Steel dam went over at flood stage, caused by the breaking and collapse of the beaver dams upstream on the tributaries of the Salmon Trout River tributaries. It was a period of heavy warm rains and melting snows and so the run off came crashing down into the steel dam. Logs, old row boats, and debris all came tumbling over the steel causing serious concern to the roadway below that just barely collapsed from the rising water between dam and roadway. The high water mark between dam and roadway was four feet. If the water had risen over that, the whole roadway would have collapsed cutting off traffic to Freda and Beacon Hill. This photo was taken in 1941 as the "gates" to the launder or spillway were crashing and collapsing. [Photo of rushing water through the dam gates.] Scanned: May 4, 2009 |
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Dams - Redridge |
Earthwork, Dams, Woody Plants, Trees, Water |
The Redridge Steel dam nearing completion in 1901-02. [Image of the dam showing numerious tree stumps near the water. Please see comment section for further information.] Scanned: November 8, 2007 |